week #8 part 3: Nonfiction Genres

The four non-fiction genres that I find narrative styles in are History (940), Crime (364), Travel-Adventure (910-920) and Biographies. Not all bios with narrative styles are in the Biography sections; for example, Yes, Please by Amy Poehler is a American humor nonfiction but it is also an autobiography of American comedian Amy Poehler, and I would recommend to someone that usually reads humor fiction. The Devil in the White City (crime) and Dead Wake (history) are both by Erik Larson but are different genres of non-fiction. He is a great narrative non-fiction, able to tell a factual story with suspense that grabs the reader. For Travel-Adventure, the book that came to mind first was Wild by Cheryl Strayed.